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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Senior System and IT Security Admnistrator
The Johns Hopkins University
$105K but that's in federal contracting.  Most of my peers in private industry are making between $130-175K.[/quote]

DH is a Hopkins grad too.  He is an independent IT consultant and makes $400k/year.

Hmmm..are you guys younger or not specialized?[/quote]

Seriously, lady? I don't know anyone in IT that makes $400K/year, your husband, if you are telling the truth, is a major outlier 
(I am not the PP you quoted)[/quote]

Not an outlier...all of DH's friends do.  He is not even the highest among them.  They are in their early 40s.  They are software consultants.  Formatting for big companies--Weyerhauser, Oil companies, Coca-Cola, Defense, etc.  SAP.[/quote]

First, I am an actual system administrator who manages the systems and networks of a small group.  When I worked on-site for the agency managing a larger group, I made more, but based on various situations, I was laid off from the contract when it downsized.  I took this smaller job for a pay cut and the smaller group, lower demands, etc have been priceless since I had kids.

That said, I work in federal contracting and there is NO ONE in my agency doing this that makes more than about $150-165K.  The only ones that I know in my field even in private who make over $200K are the ones that are in banking and while I might have done that in my younger years, the hours and on-call are h*ll.  Yeah, those are people who repeatedly are paged at 3am and told to be in the office within 45 minutes because such-and-such is down and has to be up within 2 hours or bad things happen to financial transactions.

Your husband is in IT consulting to large, expensive private corporations.  Unlikely that he does hands on maintenance of systems.  He's more likely a design and development consultant who actually develops the new systems that are going to be proposed and implemented in the future.  That's a far cry from what I do.  And, frankly, I wouldn't want most of those jobs either.  How many hours does your husband put in for that $400K salary?  And how often do you and the kids see him?  And how much does he work at home?  And how much time does he have to help around the house?  [/quote]

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